Forget

Poetry by Adel Awad
Photo by Ramez E. Nassif

The soul knows,
the body forgets

and perhaps, when we dream,
our souls take flight
to embrace each other
to forgive, rejoice and dance
and rehearse the lines
they wish they’d say

only to return back to
bodies that forget

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